________________ "O Bhante! What does one achieve by performing Samayik?" Samayik destroys negative qualities of the soul and one acquires virati. Virati means to stop... to take rest! When should one take rest? When one is tired or when one wants to take rest. The pause... the break, that does not give any rest or does not do away with your fatigue, is that real rest? In the field of spirituality, after performing Samayik, our fatigue... our tiredness of our vices should decrease and disappear and the ease... the relaxation of our virtues should appear and increase. In our case, the opposite is happening. The rest and pleasure of virtues is not increasing and the tiredness of vices remains the same. That is why, in spite of performing Samayik for an hour, our soul does not experience the happiness, thrill or excitement that it should! We actually do not know what is tiredness and how to get rid of it! Samayik means to sit on the chair of a judge. Similarly Samayik means to differentiate between the perfect and the imperfect and thereafter, accept the truth and denounce the untruth. "Accept virtues... detest vices! Feelings of awe and appreciation towards good qualities and dislike towards bad qualities!" 139 --
